[Python-3000] PEP 3108: Standard Library Reorganization

[Mike Orr]

On 1/1/07, Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote:
> > > * stat
> > > >     + ``os.stat`` now returns a tuple with attributes.
> > >
> > > The stat module also offers useful functions like stat.IS_DIR() for
> > > determining if an object is a directory.
> >
> >
> > Perhaps the functions should move to os or be part of the object returned by
> > os.stat.
>
> Methods sound better (to me) than functions in the os module.  If for
> the reason that os.stat(fn).ST_ISDIR() would be easier to remember than
> os.ST_ISDIR(os.stat(fn).st_mode) .

os.path.isdir() already exists, and it does the same thing in a more
friendly way.  The issue is the four functions that have no
counterpart outside the stat module: S_ISCHR, S_ISBLK, S_ISFIFO,
S_ISSOCK.  These might as well be parallel to the others.

I think Jim is writing a PEP that would move all the os.path.is*()
functions into os because they access the filesystem (except
os.path.isabs()).  That's a separate issue.

-- 
Mike Orr <sluggoster at gmail.com>